[Mr Flyguy]

Originally Posted by 3blade

Watch the orvis videos on YouTube

The bow is a good river to practice reading water, casting, and mending. Focus on your techniques, accuracy, line management, getting a perfect drift. Don’t think about catching fish.

Once you have figured that out (and I mean dialed in, not 60%ish or almost not sloppy) go to a stocked pond or a small river/stream, and fish a size 16 bead head pheasant tail under a small indicator, or a size 14 elk hair caddis on the surface if you see rises, or swing a size 10 black or olive Woolley bugger down and across. That’s where and how you'll start catching fish.

But it all starts with good technique. Even 8inch stockies will avoid you if you are flapping around.

Huh, I thought that was what fishing was all about? Fish as you learn, otherwise it's paralysis by analysis.